Dilekyt, unknown Eastern workshop Syrian or Palestinian, glass vessel, 3rd century, Roman Empire. The vessel consists of two tubes connected at one side with a flat bottom. The outer sides are gently curved toward the axis and decorated with two thick wavy glass threads that begin with thickenings at one-third of the vessel's height and terminate at the rings of the slightly flared spouts. At the joints of the threads and spouts, a large bow-shaped vice is supported, wider on one side than the other and narrowed at the top. Height 15.7 cm; width 7.3 cm; depth 2.3 cm., A translucent glass vessel with a looped handle and an elongated body, showing a mix of green and pale blue tones; the handle is a darker green arching over the top, and a pair of wavy, ribbon-like glass attachments descend along the sides in green hues; the main body is a softer, slightly cloudy pale blue-green with visible surface imperfections and small bubbles, widening at the bottom into a rounded, slightly flattened...
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Dilekyt, unknown Eastern workshop Syrian or Palestinian, glass vessel, 3rd century, Roman Empire. The vessel consists of two tubes connected at one side with a flat bottom. The outer sides are gently curved toward the axis and decorated with two thick wavy glass threads that begin with thickenings at one-third of the vessel's height and terminate at the rings of the slightly flared spouts. At the joints of the threads and spouts, a large bow-shaped vice is supported, wider on one side than the other and narrowed at the top. Height 15.7 cm; width 7.3 cm; depth 2.3 cm., A translucent glass vessel with a looped handle and an elongated body, showing a mix of green and pale blue tones; the handle is a darker green arching over the top, and a pair of wavy, ribbon-like glass attachments descend along the sides in green hues; the main body is a softer, slightly cloudy pale blue-green with visible surface imperfections and small bubbles, widening at the bottom into a rounded, slightly flattened base; the top has two adjacent openings with thicker rims, and the overall surface displays subtle streaks and variations in green and blue shades.

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Dilekyt unknown Eastern workshop Syrian Palestinian glass vessel 3rd century Roman Empire vessel consists two tubes connected side flat bottom outer sides gently curved axis decorated two thick wavy glass threads begin thickenings -third vessel's height terminate rings slightly flared spouts joints threads large bow-shaped vice supported wider narrowed top Height 15.7 cm width 7.3 cm depth 2.3 cm translucent glass vessel looped handle elongated body showing mix green pale blue tones handle darker green arching pair wavy ribbon- glass attachments descend sides green hues main body softer cloudy pale blue-green visible surface imperfections small bubbles widening bottom rounded flattened base two adjacent openings thicker rims surface displays subtle streaks variations blue shades.

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